As my companion and I sat visiting, a phone call came at the house where we were. Strange enough it was for me. It was our neighbor, calling to say that McKay had hurt his finger and Aaron was taking him to urgent care. I wasn't quite sure why a hurt finger required a visit to urgent care or why my neighbor was calling instead of Aaron, so I stayed another minute or two and then headed home.
When I arrived home I found a distraught Parker bawling his eyes out about McKay's finger. The reason, Parker had slammed it in the carport door and the fingertip was now dangling by a thin piece of skin. Luckily by the time I got home our neighbor had cleaned up the blood (not my strong suit) and Aaron had already headed to urgent care.
Urgent care bandaged McKay up but were unable to help him further. So, Aaron came back by the house and picked me up and we headed to Phoenix Children's Hospital. All I could think about as we drove to the hospital was Aaron's cousin's son who had severed a finger and had to stay in the hospital with leeches periodically sucking on the finger so that it wouldn't die. Okay, looking back the two situations were totally different and hooray no leeches would be needed.
We spent the next several hours at Phoenix Children's where each person that came into the room had to undo the bandage and look at McKay's poor dangling fingertip. They finally sent us for x-rays and determined that no bone had been affected and that they could just sew it back together. The doctor couldn't guarantee that the fingertip would live or if the fingernail would stay on, but luckily both of these things happened.
McKay's finger looks pretty normal these days. He just has a small bump near the fingernail and a "dimple" where one of the stitches was.
Our current accident total:
Parker-stitches twice, one broken arm
McKay-stictches twice (finger and forehead)
Dallin-nada (I'm expecting his stitches anytime, Lego Star Wars can get pretty dangerous! :) )
5 comments:
Ouch, ouch, ouch! Aren't you kind of glad you weren't there when it happened? I am really not good at these kinds of situations, so I'm hoping we won't have a lot of need for emergency rooms with our kids. So far, so good...
That is a good story! I'm so glad that his finger healed well. It looks completely normal. I'm with Janell, I don't like those situations. I think I would have panicked.
K, I was hoping to see a pic of the severed finger tip...how sick am I?:P I have to admit my hand was over my mouth (in a "oh my goodness...I can't believe it" fashion) during the entire post!:) Glad his finger is okay, can you imagine how bad Parker would have felt if he'd lost a finger!
I so remember that night!
WHAT!!???
Is this what I have to look forward to with 3 boys????!! I am so scared, I too get wheezy over blood!!
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